Mick Jagger under fire for taking holiday

Mick Jagger has come under fire from democracy campaigners after taking a holiday in military-controlled Burma, either in defiance or ignorance of widespread calls for a tourism boycott.

The 60-year-old Rolling Stone arrived by private plane last Friday and left on Tuesday, Burma's 7-Day News magazine reported.

Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's opposition leader and Nobel Peace laureate who is being held in detention, has repeatedly asked foreigners not to visit. She argues tourism politically legitimises and enriches the ruling generals, while staying away applies pressure to bring them to the negotiating table.

In July, the British Government urged its citizens and travel companies to avoid Burma because of its "well documented cases of human rights abuses associated with the tourism industry".